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Definition of Stealing
Stealing

of Steal

The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.

That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.

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Stealing Quotations

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
Erma Bombeck

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George Orwell

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
Conan O'Brien

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
Eddie Izzard

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Bo Jackson

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
Waylon Jennings

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
Barry White

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
Frank Carson

Stealing Translations

stealing in German is entwendend, stehlend
stealing in Spanish is hurto


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